The concept of the six-point demand emerged from the writings of visionary economist Prof Nurul Islam in the late 1950s, said speakers at an event yesterday.
Swisscontact Bangladesh in collaboration with The Daily Star organized a roundtable titled ‘The current trends in skills development sector of Bangladesh: challenges and possibilities’ on February 15, 2023. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
Bangladesh is still lagging in creating enough technically-skilled workforce. To improve this situation, the country needs to transform its skills-development sector, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday.
With the theme "Economics of Change: Developing in a Dynamic World", the 4th Bangladesh Economics Summit (BES) had commenced on 24th February and it reached the apt closure on Thursday (3 March) with the session "Luminaries of Economics: Tales of the Past and Hopes for the Future." At the event, prominent economists across multiple generations of our country reminisced